Soft tip guiding catheter
CA 2069807 C · Owner: Parker, Fred T. · Inventors: Parker, Fred T.
Overview
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A soft tip guiding catheter for atraumatic insertion into delicate, tortuous coronary vessels and introduction of an angioplasty balloon catheter therethrough. The guiding catheter includes a main tubular portion and a soft tubular tip with respective, matching external and internal tapers for increasing the contact area of the thermal bond. The outer and inner diameters of the main portion are uniform and match the respective outer and inner diameters of the soft tip for. providing a uniform outer catheter surface and a continuous, uniform catheter passageway surface. The tapers further provide for a gradual change in durometer between the main portion and soft tip. The main portion …
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- Filed May 28, 1992 and granted April 29, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 28, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 28, 2014.
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